Environment

All about the upcoming Reverberation Music Festival

Contributor to The LeaderMay 15, 2024May 15, 2024

May 15, 2024May 15, 2024

LEE PYE Staff Writer Last year, a student-run, all-day music festival celebrated folk with folks, and the Reverberation Music Festival is coming back a lot bigger, and a lot louder. Jacob Kantner is a fourth-year English Adolescent Education BA/MA student at SUNY Fredonia, balancing his major, being a singer/songwriter and......

Life & Arts

Fall Sweep preview

Contributor to The LeaderNovember 10, 2023November 9, 2023

November 10, 2023November 9, 2023

ROSEMARIE RAPISARDA Staff Writer A student-run organization Applied Communications Association (ACA) is hosting its annual community service event, Fall Sweep. For the past 12 years, the event has been drawing hundreds of students into the Fredonia community to rake leaves in residents’ lawns. Last year, 400 students were in attendance.......

Opinion

[OPINION] The arrival of autumn

Contributor to The LeaderOctober 10, 2023October 3, 2023

October 10, 2023October 3, 2023

ISABELLA INZINNA Staff Writer The leaves are turning orange, the air is cool and crisp, ah it’s fall again, obviously the best season. What other season has two names? I mean you have winter, spring, summer and fall. But fall has a much cooler name: autumn. How pretty is that?......

Life & Arts

Celebrating Earth Day with Music Industry Club’s Soulstice Jam

Contributor to The LeaderMay 3, 2023May 3, 2023

May 3, 2023May 3, 2023

ISABELLA INZINNA Special to the Leader Music Industry Club (MIC) helped SUNY Fredonia celebrate Earth Day on Saturday, April 22. MIC offered students a day full of music and vendors for entertainment. Soulstice Jam was meant to take place in Dod’s Grove, but the rainy day forced MIC to change......

News

Dead birds of Rockefeller: One year later

Contributor to The LeaderApril 21, 2023April 18, 2023

April 21, 2023April 18, 2023

NERON SIMPSON Special to The Leader Graphic by Dice Yandow Everyone has had at least one moment in their life where they have walked into a glass, but most people do not die from it. Birds passing through SUNY Fredonia cannot say the same. In October 2021, former managing editor......

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Earth Day events hosted by Greystone Nature Preserve, FRED Grows and Enactus + photo gallery

Contributor to The LeaderApril 28, 2022April 28, 2022

April 28, 2022April 28, 2022

TANNER CLARK Special to The Leader Earth Day, which annually takes place on April 22, bloomed into an array of events offered in Fredonia on a beautiful Friday afternoon. Greystone Nature Preserve hosted this event with two campus clubs: FRED Grows and the Planet Division of Enactus to celebrate the......

News

SUNY Fredonia’s snow makes it difficult for students to navigate campus

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 31, 2022March 30, 2022

March 31, 2022March 30, 2022

CHLOE KOWALYK News Editor During the winter season, SUNY Fredonia’s campus becomes a landscape of white snow and giant snowflakes sticking to the trees. However, along with the winter aesthetic comes various issues for students trying to walk around campus. One student in particular, Max Sheedy, uses a wheelchair to......

Opinion

Reuse or abuse? The plastic predicament

Jules HoeptingMarch 11, 2022March 9, 2022

March 11, 2022March 9, 2022

JULES HOEPTING Managing Editor “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind wanting to start again?” asks Katy Perry in the opening line of her megahit song “Firework.” The idea of plastic bags ending up in places they were never intended to be is all too......

News

Microplastics: The silent killer

Contributor to The LeaderFebruary 27, 2022February 27, 2022

February 27, 2022February 27, 2022

CASEY HUBER Special to The Leader Plastic pollution is in every corner of our world. In fact, the level of global pollution is so high that trash has been found in the deepest surface of the Earth, the Marianas Trench, as well as the highest peak of our world, Mount......

Scallion

[SATIRE] Students advocate for global warming in response to unreasonable winter weather

Contributor to The LeaderFebruary 26, 2022February 27, 2022

February 26, 2022February 27, 2022

JAY BYRONStaff Scallywag (This article is written for comedic purposes. For factual information on global warming, visit Fredonia’s Climate Education Initiative website: fredonia.edu/about/offices/climate-education-initiative/climate-facts.) Going to Fredonia, you were probably already aware that the weather was gonna be quite the treat. We all knew that snow was a big thing to......

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All about the upcoming Reverberation Music Festival

Fall Sweep preview

[OPINION] The arrival of autumn

Celebrating Earth Day with Music Industry Club’s Soulstice Jam

Dead birds of Rockefeller: One year later

Earth Day events hosted by Greystone Nature Preserve, FRED Grows and Enactus + photo gallery

SUNY Fredonia’s snow makes it difficult for students to navigate campus

Reuse or abuse? The plastic predicament

Microplastics: The silent killer

[SATIRE] Students advocate for global warming in response to unreasonable winter weather